Gaming Problems

yagga

I am having difficulty playing games. I can't see anything on the screen when I open them up anymore. I get the sound and know it is working fine, but I just don't get the picture. Does anyone know what this may be? Norton says no viruses like always. Spybot says DSO Exploit (5) all the time, but I think that's a bug in the program. Adaware keeps coming up pretty clean. Everything else is pretty clean.

kryyst

it won't be a virus or anything of that nature. Could be your video card is dying but generally that will cause it to just outright crash. My guess is your drivers or directx are buggered.

But more importantly have you made any changes to your system between when they were working and have since stopped working? Are you trying to run them at some wonky resolution that your system can't handle? Often games will have a setup option that is accessible outside of running the program. If they do go into it and set everything to run as minimal as possible and see if it works then start tuning it up from there.

Hawk

Have "Search & Destroy" look for problems the usual way and then (1) highlight one of the "Data source object exploit" items, (2) Right click the highlighted item to bring up the menu list and select "More details", (3) Now click "Jump to location", (4) You are now viewing the Registry and can use the path shown in the Search & Destroy window to get to the key shown, (5) Manually delete each of 5 keys to no longer have it coming back.
And here's a site that may be helpful too.--- http://www.nsclean.com/dsostop.html
Hope this helps.

ChemicalChild

when u have technical diffeculties it helps if u post ur specs and driver versions installed this way it will be easier 2 help us help u. also its amazing what i fresh install can do for your system, you should try to not use Norton Antivirus or any Norton product its a system hog and really you can get equivalent protection somewhere else, pc-cilling, micro-trend House Call, etc.

SSR_06

DSO exploit is used in P2P programs such as limewire. deleteing it will cause the program not to run.